Castel & Walker: Canadian Conflict of Laws, 6th Edition

Provides a scholarly yet practical analysis of the vast and continuously growing body of common law, legislation and treaties and conventions that govern private international law as it is applied in Canada.

Through five successful editions, LexisNexis® Castel & Walker: CanadianConflict of Laws has provided a scholarly yet practical analysis of the vast and continuously growing body of common law, legislation and treaties and conventions that govern private international law as it is applied in Canada.

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Case references include both the official law report citation and the LexisNexis Quicklaw citation. Allowing you to quickly identify and obtain the full-text decisions relevant to your particular case.

Features and Benefits:

Comprehensive approach - 35 chapters set out the general principles and how they are applied by the courts in virtually every area of civil practice

Practical guidance - Addresses the unique evidentiary and procedural issues that form part of the conflict of laws field

Up-to-date information - The looseleaf format combined with regular releases ensure that the publication always represents the current state of the law as articulated in the hundreds of court decisions handed down each year

Authoritative statement of the law - Written by a top expert in the field of private international law

Particular focus is placed on:

How courts across Canada have been implementing, refining, and sometimes distinguishing, the governing principles articulated in leading cases

Contemporary approaches to conflicts issues in the private law fields including the particular rules that have developed with respect to torts, contracts, property, succession, family law and bankruptcy and insolvency

Impact of recent international developments on the enforcement of civil and commercial judgments worldwide

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Featured authors

Janet Walker

Janet Walker

Janet Walker, B.A. (Hons), M.A., J.D.., D.Phil., is a Professor and past Associate Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, where she teaches Conflict of Laws and International Commercial Arbitration. She is the author of Castel and Walker: Canadian Conflict of Laws 6th Edition, co-author of Civil Litigation, and General Editor of The Civil Litigation Process, 8th ed. and of Common Law Civil Law and the Categories of the Future.

Professor Walker is a member of the Bar of Ontario and was the advisor (common law) to Canada's Federal Courts Rules Committee (2006-15). She has served as an International Advisor to the American Law Institute in its project with UNIDROIT to develop Transnational Principles and Rules of Civil Procedure (1998-2004), and as a member of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada Committee on National Class Actions (2005-2006), the IBA Task Force on International Procedures and Protocols for Collective Redress (2007-2008), and the American Bar Association Litigation Section Working Group on Protocols for Parallel Class Actions (2007-2010). Professor Walker has served on many occasions as a consultant and expert, and as an international arbitrator in many jurisdictions. She has taught as a visiting professor at Monash, Haifa, UofT, NYU, NUS, Oxford, and for thirteen years at Tunis II.

Part One: General ConsiderationsChapter 1: Nature and Scope of the Conflict of LawsChapter 2: The Constitution and the Conflict of LawsChapter 3: Characterization and the Incidental QuestionChapter 4: The Connecting Factors of Domicile and ResidenceChapter 5: RenvoiChapter 6: Substance and ProcedureChapter 7: Proof of Foreign Law and Foreign DocumentsChapter 8: Refusal to Apply Foreign Law or to Enforce Foreign JudgmentsChapter 9: The Time Element

Part Two: Jurisdiction of Canadian Courts - Foreign Judgments and Arbitration AwardsChapter 10: The Scope of Judicial JurisdictionChapter 11: The Bases of Judicial JuristictionChapter 12: Admiralty Actions In Rem and In PersonamChapter 13: Declining JurisdictionChapter 14: Recognition and Enforcement of JudgmentsChapter 15: Arbitration and Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards